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HTC is going to space. The company announced today that on a planned November 7th NASA resupply launch, a tweaked, microgravity-friendly version of its Vive Focus 3 VR headset will be sent to the International Space Station. Once it’s there, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen will test the Focus 3’s viability for helping alleviate the mental … Read more
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NASA is preparing to begin an experiment named GUSTO — short for Galactic / Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory — to gather data that will be used to create a 3D map of a portion of the Milky Way Galaxy. The GUSTO experiment involves a telescope that will float 120,000 feet over Antarctica on a … Read more
You booked this doctor’s appointment weeks in advance. You took off work, endured the trip here, filled out paperwork while a cooking show blared from a TV on the wall, and now you’re finally in the inner sanctum, awkwardly perched on an exam table and staring at a jar of tongue depressors. Your doctor comes … Read more
An oil tanker anchored in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen’s contested western province of Hodeida on July 15, 2023. Mohammed Huwais | Afp | Getty Images Oil prices traded marginally higher Tuesday as tankers shun the Red Sea on the back of heightened attacks by Iran-backed Houthi militants which have disrupted international … Read more
(NewsNation) — More than half of all Americans believe intelligent life exists on other planets, according to NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ polling, and you can count astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson among them. Tyson said Monday on “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” it would be “unrealistic” to “demand of the universe that we are alone.” “I can tell you … Read more
NASA scientists believe that the ice moon Enceladus, which orbits Saturn, could hold all the basic building blocks of life and might be our best bet at finding living organisms beyond Earth. Research has already revealed that Enceladus has water, carbon dioxide and methane present in the giant plumes of vapour that spew from its … Read more
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Schools and colleges in England have been told there is “no general duty” to allow children to change their gender identity. Teachers in England will not be “compelled” to use a child’s preferred … Read more
An interdisciplinary team consisting of researchers from the Center for Cognition and Sociality and the Data Science Group within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) revealed a striking similarity between the memory processing of artificial intelligence (AI) models and the hippocampus of the human brain. This new finding provides a novel perspective on memory consolidation, … Read more
HST WFC3 [N II] image of HM Sge and the surrounding nebula enhanced artistically to accentuate the main nebular features of different contrast scales for the large-scale nebular structure and central region. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.01984 Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), astronomers have performed a … Read more
Credit: La Trobe University A team of Australian geneticists has discovered the gene that determines the sex of dragon lizards works differently from the way sex genes work in other animals. Published today in PNAS, the study showed dragon lizards are determined to be male or female by epigenetic rather than genetic differences—that is, … Read more
